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WCDT: 2001-2005 (29 Aug-2 Sept 2011)
Akima:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 30 Aug 2011, 20:04 ---People who didn't take suffering as inevitable have, among other things, eradicated smallpox, eliminating three million agonized deaths every year.
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People who didn't take suffering as inevitable have done many things, some good, some evil. Regarding suffering as inevitable does not preclude trying to reduce it, but there is no vaccine to protect anyone from a broken heart.
--- Quote from: skellibones on 30 Aug 2011, 21:34 ---Life is suffering due to the impermanence of life. Buddhist philosophy, ya dig.
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Life is suffering in many ways, owing to many causes. I don't want to get technical because I am certainly not a qualified teacher (nor even a very good Buddhist), and this is not an appropriate forum, but when considering the Four Noble Truths, it is important to realise that "suffering" is easily misunderstood owing to a mistranslation common to both English and Chinese.
questionablecontentfan:
I should also mention that Mari is a SAINT compared to me with this shit. She genuinely wanted Angus to be happy. I would be going for blood.
Proof, I guess, that I don't identify with her that much. She is much better behaved than I would be. lol.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: questionablecontentfan on 30 Aug 2011, 22:22 ---
--- Quote from: iduguphergrave on 30 Aug 2011, 22:20 ---
You don't sound nuts, but you do sound like a hurt and bitter person who is projecting her issues onto fictional characters, which is causing you to blow certain aspects of their personalities out of proportion.
Hope that wasn't too blunt, but you're arguing from your feelings and nothing else. No offense, but to me, it seems like the comic is something like a rorschach test for you.
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No, it's not. But thank you for your opinion.
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Ok, that right there? That's what I was talking abut earlier. It's dismissive, and downright rude. Partly because iduguphergrave is not just expressing an opinion - the image you project on this forum is of someone hurt and bitter. And you are blowing aspects of characters out of proportion, while ignoring other aspects. You do argue from your feelings, which is not an argument at all. Yes, it is! No, it isn't!...
As for the Rorschach test thing, most art really is. What you see in it (whether it's a sculpture, a novel or (gasp!) a webcomic) reveals more about a yourself than most people like to admit...
Edit: Damn sticky O key...
gangler:
--- Quote from: questionablecontentfan on 30 Aug 2011, 22:14 ---Okay, I get it. Life just has to suck. Moving on...
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Life is awesome. It doesn't have to suck at all. We live in a golden age. I'm a dirtpoor student and I've got more entertainment laid out before me than could be consumed in a lifetime, nearly all human knowledge laid bare before me, a bitchin roof over my head that's not gonna fall anytime soon, and can support a lifestyle that doesn't require physical excertion and a diet that has me a little pudgy around the edges.
This is the best life has ever been on this planet. Even in lowerclass society my life is luxurious to a degree that exceeds the greatest nobles of old. I possess things that would have been great treasures even fifteen years ago and I treat it as outdated junk. I have access to all the food of the world. I am exposed to the elements to a minimal degree. I have a degree of freedom that in a larger perspective is enviable, and I can choose to partake in all the pursuits in the world that could ever interest me. I live in a city. A section of the planet that we have manually reshaped in our image. The entire world is my oyster and my fate is mine for the choosing so long as I place it within my ability to accomplish.
Life is the best. I'm hardly broken up over the fact that the freedom and unpredictability of other thinking beings prevents me from forging an ideal relationship with only my own will to back it. Life is so awesome that people look at my awesome life and think it's shit just based on the comparison to their own fantastic lives.
Life has to contain contain disappointment. This is unavoidable. There is pain to be found in life. This is also unavoidable. Overall though life's pretty freaking sweet right now. I got pepsi in the fridge.
Blackjoker:
Oh my this is an active thread. On the note of the chasis I'm actually more curious as to whether they have rules and regs for addons and the like, for example smaller ones might have more bells and whistles in part because they look less human and might also be seen as less threatening whereas human sized ones might have more regulations to avoid 'How do I compete with a living computer that also has built in wireless, hologram projectors and can be a portable espresson machine?!'
As to the whole Marigold thing...I find it a bit weird. I don't see any kind of romantic link between Marigold and Angus, their personalities seem to be far too disparate at least in terms of what would attract them. I feel genuine sympathy for Marigold, someone who would gladly offer themselves to someone just to be treated nicely is someone that needs a lot of sympathy. But she and Angus wouldn't be happy together, I think that if Dale is pursuing her it's closer to Calvin tormenting Suzie than it is to anything really flirtatious.
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